Category: medicine

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It’s About the Dilaudid

So when a nurse calls you for a patient request and begins with “It’s about the Dilaudid” you generally expect the conversation to go one way. I was therefore so surprised that a patient...

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Big Science!

[Anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii] “fabricated his results in at least 172 published studies” … British anesthesiologist John Carlisle, found that the odds of the data being generated experimentally [were] on the order of 1×10^30 …...

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Psychiatric Call Boy

“I was literally standing in the drug-rep spot begging for a minute of this doctor’s time, like a cocker spaniel begging for a leftover piece of meat from the table … It was like...

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My House M.D. Moment

Hgb electrophoresis confirmed a putative thalassemia diagnosis I made last week on person presenting with microcytic anemia and, after some digging around the family history, a “half-Sicilian” mother. At last all those USMLE ding-dong...